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She laid her head on her arm, which was resting on her desk, and reopened the book she had been reading during her breaks. For Kathy Hart, half of the famous "Eric & Kathy Mornings" that has worked for 18 years in 101.9 FM's morning slot, "breaks" happen when she played a song. Commercials lasted only 30 seconds and had to be managed closely, but songs were three-and-a-half minutes — time enough to get through a few paragraphs before needing to cue something else up. Hart was working her first on-air job in radio, the midnight-to-6 a.m. slot at a station in Rockford; being young and single, she had been out the night before, and came to work tired. She...

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She laid her head on her arm, which was resting on her desk, and reopened the book she had been reading during her breaks.
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